It's dog days now, Zhao Ta and Jianxi have been stuffy in the Taoist temple for a few days, the Dan room is in a mess, the ground is full of dregs, and there are a few broken cauldrons thrown at the door, if you look closely, you can see fluorescent lights flashing inside.

"See, did you write down the recipe just now?" Zhao Tan asked as he stirred in the cauldron.

"Second master, I've written it down, Qingyun, this bastard, when we catch him, we have to beat him half-crippled, what a broken formula, most of it is fake!" Seeing that he said happily, the two of them have made more explosions than Qingyun in a year in the past few days, his hair and eyebrows have been burned, and the clothes on his body are almost like a sieve, all of them are bare arms and exposed flesh, and his face is bald from the scorching flames, black and white like a giant panda.

Zhao Ta didn't hear Xi's complaints, he added some white powder to the crucible again, the turbid liquid in the pot slowly became clear, he was studying the notes left by Qingyun, there was a recipe for making glaze, he tried several times and failed, and now he used his memory to cut again.

The Taoist priests said that the glass that was refined was actually glass, and they believed that this was a kind of jade, a precious material for the preparation of the elixir, crushed and added to the elixir, and people could live a hundred years like jade after eating this. Zhao Ta doesn't believe in this at all, people have to pull it out as they are after eating, and the glass slag is lucky if it doesn't pierce the intestines, and it's a fucking long life, dream!

Glass is a common thing in the future, but it is a scarce treasure now, and Zhao Ta knows that the raw materials of glass are also extremely ordinary, but sand, lime and soda ash, it is also easy to find, the difficult thing for him is the formula, he does not know the proportion of the road, he can only test it according to the formula of Qingyun, and wants to get the process out first. In order to prevent others from stealing the arts, Qingyun tampered with the formula, and only he could figure out the password, but it was hard for the two of them, so he had to try a little bit, but fortunately, Zhao Ta knew what the Tao used, and he couldn't find it after changing other people's doors.

"See, add fire!" Zhao Ta instructed Jianxi while observing, and Jianxi added a few more shovels of coal to the furnace, and pulled the bellows with a 'fluttering and fluttering', and the flames flew up, and the crucibles became red, more than a thousand degrees.

"Second master, be careful, don't fry the pot again!" Seeing that he said in horror, this situation has happened many times.

"Don't be afraid, as long as we succeed, you can lie on the gold ingots and sleep!" The raw materials in the crucible slowly fused and boiled under Zhao Ta's stirring, and bubbles continued to emerge, Zhao Ta continued to skim out the impurities floating on it, he felt that this success was just around the corner, and he was happy to see it in his heart.

"Second master, what are you doing, can it be as valuable as you say?" Jianxi wiped the sweat on his face and said.

"This is the so-called colored glass, but what we do is better than what Qingyun and the Persians do, how much do you say it can be sold!"

"Huh?! It's glass! Seeing Xi was taken aback, he didn't expect that he would help the prince make glass, how much this thing is worth he knows, there are a few glass cups in the palace, the emperor is usually reluctant to use them, and they are worth 10,000 yuan.

"I didn't expect that!" Zhao Ta said with a smile, the Song Dynasty is the richest era in history, there are many rich people, there is nowhere to spend more money, so they like to buy some strange things to collect and display, which is no different from modern times, and the glass can just meet their needs, find a place for their money, Zhao Ta seems to have seen a pile of sand turned into a golden ingot, rolling in, flowing into his pocket.

Seeing that the heat was almost over, Zhao Ta scooped out a little with a spoon and poured it on the slate, the bright red liquid slowly cooled, and gradually turned into a transparent crystal, "See Xi, don't burn, keep this temperature!" He waited for the crystals to cool down completely, picked them up and held them in his hands, and shone them in the sun, crystal clear, although there was still a faint green, but it was almost no different from the inferior glass of later generations.

"See, we made it!" Zhao Ta shouted violently and pounced on Jianxi, who was unprepared and was thrown to the ground. I was stunned for a moment, and I quickly reacted, and another major invention was born, of course, it also contains its own credit.

Glass is manufactured, but it still needs a lot of work to be done to be exchanged for money, Zhao Ta only saw glass blowing when he was a teenager, when the reform and opening up had just begun, and all kinds of small workshops sprung up everywhere. Someone on the side of their house has made a small glass factory, producing soda bottles, window glass, the quality is not good compared with the big factory, but it is cheaper, their equipment is simple, a crucible, two iron scissors, a few blowpipes can be started, and the process is also traditional manual blowing. ,

The factory is in the open air, watching the masters dip a piece of red glass water with a blowpipe, with the cooperation of the hand and mouth, turn left and right, as if by magic to turn it into a crystal clear bottle, it is still very attractive to children, at that time he and his friends often go to see the rare, but that is to see the rare, how to get him has not operated, and it is impossible for people to let him touch.

The next day, Zhao Ta walked into the 'laboratory' with a few tools that had been made by the blacksmith overnight, but found that the crucible had been stuck with the solidified liquid glass, so he had no choice but to change the crucible and start again. After refining the glass water, Zhao Ta learned the appearance of the 'master' in his memory, picked a piece of liquid glass with a blowpipe, cut it with iron scissors, took a deep breath, puffed up his cheeks and blew out the most valuable breath of his life, the molten glass was bulging, but Zhao Ta was bored, and when he took a breath, the 'small balloon' hanging on the blowpipe cooled quickly and couldn't blow anymore.

"Failure is the mother of success!" Zhao Ta comforted himself, changed another piece, and failed again. Once, twice, three times... The two of them tossed for a day, looking at the pile of twisted and crooked works on the ground, standing upright, standing up and standing upright, and wanted to cry without tears.

"It's so devastating..." Zhao Ta picked up the hammer and smashed them into glass pieces, and then looked at the stains all over his body, swarthy little hands, and sat on the ground with a sigh, why is it so difficult to do something, when the prince is so old, he eats and sleeps violently, and is happy, but his own prince is busier than anyone else, busy planning the future to save the Great Song Dynasty, busy building bridges and paving roads to improve people's livelihood, and building factories to grow vegetables to make money... He really wanted to jump up and scold his foolish father, you said that your emperor is not good at it, and you are doing a lot of tossing all day long, and I will be unlucky...

"Second master, don't be angry, let's not get it right, can't we change someone?" Seeing that Xi saw Zhao Ta's frustration, he asked cautiously.

"For whom, no one has ever seen this thing in the entire Great Song Dynasty, who will have this technique?" Zhao Ta shook his head and said.

"Second master, I'm not saying let them make glass, they just want to make it, and we can't tell him no, I mean find someone who can blow and let him blow glass for us!" Jianxi said with a smile.

"Who will blow it?" Zhao Ta was in good spirits, this idea is good.

"Second master, I see that you blow this and the candy blower who walks the streets and alleys, let's not find two candy blowers to try!"

"Ahem..." Zhao Ta let his breath suffocate to death, he really dared to think that a sugar man was just a penny, and making a finished product by himself would be enough for him to blow a sugar man for a lifetime, but now there is no other way, you can try, "Okay, you will send someone tomorrow to find two craftsmen who blow candy people with the best skills, and let them try, but you have to think of not letting him tell our secret!" ”

"There is only one way to prevent him from telling his secret, and that is to cut out his tongue so that he will not be able to speak for the rest of his life!" Jianxi touched his smooth chin and said with a fierce glint in his eyes.

"You are really lacking in virtue, so that people don't tell the secret, in addition to death, cutting out the tongue, there are two ways: one is to give him enough money, so that he can't bear to say it; The other is to let him know that it is better to die than to say that the fate of Lu is gone! Zhao Ta said with a smile.

"Second master, what are you going to do to me?" Looking at the smiling face of the prince, he asked shamelessly.

"Get out, ** still want me to take money to smash you to death, if you can't do this thing, I'll cut your tongue!" Zhao Ta kicked him and scolded.

"Second master, I'm going to find Shunzi, this guy makes people scared when they look at it, and he can do this kind of thing, and another strict mouth is like a dead man, he can definitely do it!" Jianxi rubbed his thighs and said with a hippie smile.

Zhao Ta was speechless, seeing that Xi was really getting smarter and smarter under his own tutelage, and his heart was getting worse and worse, and now he was mixed with that cold guy from Junzi again, I am afraid that a new generation of black and white impermanence was born again.

Seeing Xi and Shunzi are very efficient, three days later, the craftsman who blows the candy man was 'found', but it is not two people, see Xi and they strictly implement the idea of the prince, and bring back the family of the candy blower, the meaning is obvious, if you dare to say it, the whole family will die!

Not to mention that the layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway, Zhao Ta just demonstrated the process to the two guys, and the two of them blew the glass water as syrup, and only wasted a furnace of glass water to figure out the key points of the operation, and in the second round, two cups with the size of a fist appeared on Zhao Ta's table.

Zhao Ta quickly sent the two finished products to Huang Jingchen's bookcase and asked him to estimate the price, the old man looked at the crystal clear glass and suspected it to be an artifact, examined it for a long time, and gave a conservative price of 2,000 yuan. Zhao Ta didn't say a word, and immediately gave it to Huang Jingchen wholesale, asking him to find a market, and the extra price difference will be counted as his future activity funds!

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Zhao Ta still has a lot of big things to do next, this glass workshop was naturally handed over to Jianxi to take care of, Jianxi was even lazier, and picked two talents from Xiaohuangmen who had slow brain response, wooden heart, followed the rules, and couldn't kick the fart with three feet, and trained them for a while, so that they could serve the glass kiln. He divided the required ingredients in advance, and marked 1, 2, 3... The two of them are like a robot that has been programmed, as long as they feed according to the heat.

So the Zhao Mansion industry invested the least manpower and material resources, the largest output ratio of the workshop was born, fortunately Zhao Ta is not greedy for money, only one furnace per month, the production is limited to primary products, but also the Beijing collectors in the pocket of a large amount of silver to the Zhao Mansion...